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• confederates who are still at large; and that the evidence was such that Hart was an effort to subvert the

Oswald was the assassin; that he did not have convicted at trial." The Katzenbach directive to 6 by Mark Lane

work of his own Committee. The "other matter" occupyingSen.

the White Housecontinued,"speculationabout

Oswald's motivation ought to be cut off." At

that time, while Katzenbach insisted that the

gotten under Oswald as the lone assassin, the Warren establishment of some apparatus to support his

White House should condemn Lee Harvey

Commission had not yet beenappointed and the

conspiracy" or "a right wing conspiracy*" Thus

rush to judgment,and he urged the White House

to act since "we should have some basis for before Oswald had been dead 24 hours the

extremists of the center were movingtocover up FBI investigation into the crime had barely

rebutting though" that there was a "communist

the facts.

played by Mr. Katzenbach was the lettei he sent

Katzenbach recognized the need for the

Even more illuminating of the shadowy role

tion of President Kennedy, Depu-

public

ust three days after the assassina-

ty Attorney General Nicholas

White House stating that "the

Katzenbach sent a letter to the

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tzenbach to Hart.

immediately sion acted favorably upon that directive, its

Oswald was the lone assassin: Had the Commis- to each member of the Warren Commiision on

Dec. 9, 1963; urging that the Commission

image of integrity would likely have been

thoroughly compromised, for the commission

pressed for twelve and one-half years, was was not even to call its first witness until two uncovered along with other evidence by Senate

months more had passed.

Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho). The Commit-

tee's final report was published last week. This

The Katzenbach correspondence, sup-

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_question arises: on whose behalf was a deputy

historic attorney general sending directives to the new auspicesof Sen. Richard Schweiker(R-Pa.)and

town, with the pecking order thoroughly well Gary Hart (D-colo.).

the release of the report, Sen. Schweiker stated that he would like to see that question answered

President and then to the members of the sional investigating committee. President's Commission, including its chair-

under oath in an appearance before a Congres-

Katzenbach was asked to explain his role while

continues, "the evidence indicates that the

and that facts which might have substantially

information to the Commission." The Report_ the assassinati,on, and by which they provided

investigation of the assassination was deficient

affected the course of the investigation were not

provided the Warren Commission or those individuals within the FBI and the CIA, as well as other agencies of government, who were

examined in the light of the Warren commis-

charged with investigating the assassination."

sion's early decision to secure no independent

invegtigators and to rely instead forinformation

upon the FBI, the CIA,and otherexistingpolice agencies.

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DC is pretty' much' a chain-of-command

Atapresscorderence held inconjunction with

In its report, the Church Committee' con-

The significance of that finding should be

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work was accomplished under the

‘' the fact§ was Simple, yet ingenious'. The report

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prevent the Warren Commission from getting

cials" were in possession of evidence that might

CIA officials" and "senior govermient offi-

reveals that "senior FBI officials" and "senior

Senior officials appointed middle-echelon

have been invaluable to the Cotimission.

bureaucrats to liaison with their oppOsite

share with the Commission representatives the

evidence with which they were familiar,

access to the decisive materials, the police agencies had constructed an obstacle that was numbers at the Warren Commission and to

effective and invisible—invisible because those

charged with the responsibility of briefing the

assignments fully. The intelligence coverupwas the appearance that they were carryingouttheir Comniission were acting in good faith and gave

operated on the old intelligence "need to know"

basis and the middle-echelon representatives in many cases did not know how they had been

utilized until they testified before the Senate directingthecommittee'sworkontheassassina- Committee.

to be resolved, Sen. Schweiker said, are: Who

tion, recently summed upthe implicationsof the

elusion that Oswald was the lone assassin, had Senate report. He, said that the Warren Commission's conclusions, including the con--

been rendered invalid since the basic evidence

"continue the investigation in an attempt to that he supported the unanimous recomthenda- ent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

had been denied to the Commission. He added

tion of the Senate Committee that the Perman-

resolve these questions." Among the questions

killed President Kennedy? and Why was he killed?

prised of those with differing political'

Report was issued, a Senate committee com-

By denying the middle-echelon officials

Sen. Schweiker, who played the major partin

Thus more than a decade after the Warren

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(Report inoperable , and called for a serious_ !Niewpoints—including Sens. Tower,poldwat-

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jnvestigation to uncover the ancient coverup.

I -disposed of it The media ambiguity was aided

swallowed whoe (but never really digested The (C

and reporting the implications of the report that

1964), were less unanimous in understanding

Warren Report since it was issued in September

ostensibly a co-author of the new document but by the curious part played by Sen. Gary Hart, The Counter-Attack

campaign to subvert it and to place its integrity upon its completion a leading figure in teh

in doubt. announced that it had unanimously recom-

mended a new investigation into the assassina- tion of President Kennedy, Sen. Hart told the evidence to place into question the

Oswald wastheloneassassin. Thusthe impact of press that the Committee had uncovered no

Committee was blunted, as the NewYork the historic determination of the Senate for example, featured only Sen. Hart's assu-

rance that oswald remained in solitary guilt.

last week, Sen. Churchand Sen. Schweikerwere conference; it was explained that Sen. hart had present. Sen. Hart's absence was noted by a

members of the Citizens commission of Inquiry reporter who inquired about it at. the news been detained on another matter. In fact while

had been visiting Sen. Schweiker's office earlier conference. that Sen. Hart was going to boycott the press in the day, CBS called to inform Sen. Schweiker work of the Committee of which- he was a very junior senator, was an effort to subvert the

ontinued

The American - news

Mondale, and Baker—rendered the Warren FK Report

Some weeks ago when the Senate Committee

When the full report was released to the med ia

The "other matter" occupying Sen. Hart, a

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before that the report that was about to be member. He had informed the media the night

again urged the media to ignore it since "our released "contained nothing of interest". The next day when the report was released Sen. Hart

committee could find no efidence at all to assassin." That assurance was given considera- question the fact that Oswald was the lone

ble media play despite the fact the Committee's question. investigation had never contemplated that

explained its scope: "The Committee did not

review the findings and conclusions of the did not review one of the principal questions physical evidence which the Commission had. It Warren Commission. It did not re-examine the

Oswald was in fact the assassin of President facing the Commission: whether Lee Harvey

Committee examined the performance of the gation of the intelligence agencies inconductingtheirinvesti-

Kennedy." The report continued: "Instead the

On the first page of its report, the Committee

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assassination and their relation-

ships to the warren Commission."

continuing searchfortruthwere disconcerted to

appointed to the Permanent Senate Intellignece learn' that Sen. Schweiker had not been Katzenbach of 1976, those concerned with the

discredited and now officially discarded "offi- Committee, While Sen. Hart had.

a threat, Sen. Schweikeras an ofject ofderision, cial truth" began to perceivethe Senate reportas and Sen. InOuye (D-Hawaii,chairman of the

Graham, in commenting upon the Senate with this report we could now put this matter to

Permanent Committee) as a target. Fred investigation. rest—a rather curious abservation, since the Report on CBS, wondered aloud if at long last report it a recommendation fora new full-scale and concluded thatibuffs will be stimulated began to look at Sen. Schweiker in an xdd light into new frenzy" by n. Schweiker's discovery.

As Sen. Gary Hart emerged as the Nicholas

Those in the media still clinging to the old

Charles Bartlett, in the

Washington Star,

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benignly neglected, lest we "toy urged that the report which he signed be ,;;

reputations of important men." were trying *ice again to lead us anywhere except to the terrible truth about a man-made tragedy; a tragedy that has dramatically altered - contract agents for the ClAiO NewOrleans, that out lives. Yet this is not 1964, and a fulland open

hundred and thirty-seven members of the , investigation of the assassination by a jSelect

tee has acted. Segments of the media have fairly Committee of the House. The Senate Commit- about the Committee's suspicions that Fidel Housibave submitted resolutionsca Ilingforan represented the work of the Senate Cominittee.

Although much has been recently publi4ed

Castro may have been the assassin, the media Castro or others in the Cuban government conclusion—"that it has no evidence that Fidel has universally failed to quote the report's

platted President Kennedy's assassination in retaliation for U.S. operations against Cuba." worked for the FBI in New Orleans and Dallas,

that he spent an inordinate amount of time with long we may learn that Lee Harvey Oswald

he was the military adviser to the CIA's anti- Castro front organization, the Free Cuba Committee, while he gave out literature for the

with integrity persist and prevail, our Bicenten- basement, had been an FBI informant since Fair lay for Cuba Committee, and that jack Ruby, who killed Oswald in the Dallas police March 11, 1959. of the Citizens Commission of Inquiry and a Capitol and bring an end to the decade of political assassinations. We may evenfind out who killed

Mark Lane, author ofRushtaJudgernencis Director nial year may be thetime we return to old values Hill resident. John Kennedy and why he was killed. NW

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If a serious investigation now ensues, before

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